This company Prosecraft appears to have stolen a lot of books, trained an AI, and are now offering a service based on that data blog.shaxpir.com/prosecraft-lin…
I did not consent to this use of my work.
Pure gaslighting
In a way, this has come at a good time. Writers need to understand what rights they have sold or otherwise assigned, and to set up a future in which we’re fairly compensated for commercial use of our work nytimes.com/2023/08/02/boo…
I’ll be talking to my agent and trying to get clarity on the status of older works. My new contract has a no training clause in it
Audit and enforcement are a whole other problem, of course
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I've been traveling for a while, and some good book and music mail was waiting for me when I got back. I also bought some things in Paris. So, a thread of the TBR / TBListened pile
Gallimard are doing a series of political tracts. Badiou, political crime writer Didier Daeninckx and a collective of historians taking down Zemmour's distortions of French history
Two translations from @archipelagobks that I can't wait to read: @a_nathanwest's version of Hermann Burger's last novel Brenner and Maureen Freely's version of Sevgi Soysal's autobiographical prison novel Dawn.
Carlson has same pseudo-decent talking point. But this is what mourning looks like - people angry and sad enough to want to do something, rather than pretending it’s like the damn weather.
There is a posture of learned helplessness adopted by US politicians in the face of this and many other problems. Words like ‘tragedy’ drain away agency.
These deaths are the result of policy. In other countries policy was changed and these events became vanishingly rare. See UK after Dunblane, Australia after Port Arthur